Changes in the population number of selected post-communist countries in view of the theory of the second demographic transition

Abstrakt

The aim of the article is to find regularities in the processes of change in the population number in post-communist countries (without former Asian republics of the former USSR) in the period after 1989. It was found in the analysis that depopulation is taking place in most of the countries. Azerbaijan, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Montenegro and the Czech Republic are exceptions. The factors influencing it are in line with the second theory of demographic transition, especially a decrease in fertility, and to a lesser extent changes in mortality. Migrations constitute an important modifying factor. Although emigration prevails in most countries, there are also countries with predominance of immigration. These are the richest
countries (Slovenia, the Czech Republic) or those with a large diaspora (Russia, Hungary).